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Well, it's fairly obvious that this is about the speaker's wife/girlfriend/partner/whomever dying, but I've got this story I'm positively stuck on so here it goes. Romance between an older guy and a younger girl. The man was basically the girl's mentor in whatever given field and fell in love with her. Girl was smart and ambitious and unsatisfied with donating any portion of her life to anything other than work. Man couldn't understand that at all. Girl left him for a higher position, despite any sacrifice of her "humanity" or what have you ["let my eyes see everything and nothing in their time; i will not mind" - this is the girl speaking, observing people from afar, being detached and fine with it]. "Call me teacher, call me friend"..."Call my name, it echoes in the walls around this room, it's all you," is the man observing how she's risen above and beyond him mentally and being proud though they're not together anymore.

Yeah. So it's pulled out of nowhere and makes very little sense, but there you go.

General CommentYeah, I think he's toast too... I think the roses-on-him parts give it away. Though I think this song would have been better if they saved the "roses off of me" part until the end (and didn't say it at the beginning), because then one would have thought that it was his partner who died, when they find out at the end that really, it was him. (This worked well, of course, in the movie "Sixth Sense" and one of the better books in the Goosebumps series, #10 "The Ghost Next Door".) The only part in question is when he says send me letters from above... but perhaps above means above ground, as he has been lowered into it.

General CommentI think this song is about a loved one dying,a girlfriend our a wife. "Take these roses off of me
Let me live, let me be" doesnt mean he is dead,it may mean he feels dead.he is ready to start moving on,but he wants to make it clear he will never forget her and that while she is gone he still needs her close.

General CommentNo, I don't think he's the one dying. It's got to be his partner. It's all very sad :( He's just telling her that he'll never forget her and never stop loving her, even though she's gone... forever.

General CommentThis has to be one of VH's most moving, beautiful songs to date...

I think the first 2 verses are from the point of view of the dead. The last verse is a bit ambiguous (the line "I don't know if you feel me here/I can tell you one thing is clear, I will feel you..." could be sung by either person.